Story highlights. (CNN)Alan Rickman, the British actor with the unforgettable voice who played the brooding Professor Severus Snape in the Harry Potter films as well as Die Hard villain Hans Gruber, died Thursday after a short battle with cancer, according to his representatives at Independent Talent Group. He was 69.
Brittany Nicole Carpentero (born May 20, 1988), better known by her stage name Diamond, is an American rapper and former member of the group Crime Mob.
The main difference, as you already know, is that diamonds from ashes are created from a very specific source of carbon-your loved one. It's all basic science really. Diamonds are carbon and humans are carbon. Any extremely pure carbon under massive amounts of pressure and heat crystallizes into diamond.